" Seriously. What did you two get up to, last night? You weren't loud, but there certainly were plenty of indications that you weren't sleeping."I smi...ed softly, with just a touch of sadness and said, "I would never talk about those things." Rebecca knew better than to pry and would probably have no trouble prying every detail out of Colleen later, anyway – and knew it.She considered me for a moment, as if she was trying to make up her mind about something important and then said, "You are. "Her daughters, I notice, still have a bit of tan line, too."To Ralph's amusement, I described the scene at the start of her trip, when she first learnt her daughters would be running around in nature's swimsuits."She must really trust you, to let her kids go off like that on such short notice." That, and I was her last resort. There are no such things as boarding kennels for kids."Ralph laughed again. "Well, I'm not going to say anything to her when this is over, except that when this is. If she tried to kick, it meant taking all the weight on her wrists. The posture collar prevented her from shaking her head. The gag prevented her from mounting an effective verbal protest. Her hands were uselessly trapped above her head. He placed some ear buds into her ears ‘to be sure you can hear me when I need to talk to you’ he explained. He put some soft pads over her eyes and taped them on so they wouldn’t move, effectively taking away her sight. And then she felt him begin with the. Even so, when the jet was finally ready to take off there was the inevitable last minute dash by a shuttle with six passengers that had gotten tied up in a LA traffic snarl.After all that waiting, the collected huddled mass yearning to breathe free gave a deep breath of relaxation as the jet cleared the runway and began its climb. The horror stories of borderline psychotic homophobes shooting model rockets into jet intakes or throwing molotov cocktails at the jets hadn?t done anyone?s nerves.